January 28, 2026
Yesterday, Superintendent Pekel was invited to speak at a press conference convened by the Minnesota Legislature's House and Senate Education Committees. In his remarks below, he...
January 27, 2026
Dear RPS Parents, Caregivers, and Staff, Over the past several weeks, I have issued several statements regarding the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents ...
January 9, 2026
Dear RPS Parents, Caregivers, and Staff, Over the past several weeks, and especially over the past few days, there has been much discussion of the actions that Immigration and Cu...
December 15, 2023
More than 60 RPS students participated in the annual IBM Lego Outreach Competition (ILEO) on Wednesday, December 13th. Since October, students have been building robots made of LE...
October 17, 2023
Rochester Community Education celebrated National Chess Day on October 14th by hosting a youth chess tournament. More than 60 students in grades K-8 participated. Players in the A...
August 10, 2023
Originally published on June 28, 2023 Embarking on a journey beyond classroom walls, Michael Olson's fifth-grade class at Folwell Elementary reimagines education by connecting ...
August 7, 2023
The fall session of one-day bus trips has a full schedule this year. We will kick off the season with “No Town Like Motown” at the Ives Auditorium in Bloomington, followed by “Bee...
August 4, 2023
"Space, the final frontier,” is the famous phrase spoken at the beginning of nearly every episode of the TV show, Star Trek. With every discovery astronomers make, we are more con...